Application of Multi-site Weather Generators for Investigating Wet and Dry Spell Lengths under Climate Change: A Case Study in Southern Taiwan

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 4311-4326

  Tseng, Hung Wei ^a   Yang, Tao Chang ^a   Kuo, Chen Min ^a   Yu, Pao Shan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate change; Rainfall characteristics; Weather generator

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; DAILY RAINFALL; DATA SETS; DOWN-SCALING; EMISSION SCENARIO; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; MULTI-SITE; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; PARAMETRIC MODELS; RAINFALL CHARACTERISTICS; RAINGAUGES; SOUTHERN TAIWAN; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; WEATHER GENERATOR; WET AND DRY;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MODELS;

RAIN;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TAIWAN; TSENG-WEN BASIN;

EID: 84868207357     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-012-0146-6     Document Type: Article

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